Governor Whitmer, my state's governor, could not be more wrong about this. Symbols matter. The president tearing down one of the symbols of our nation is obscene.

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why does the Canadian national anthem and the fans singing it have me crying? 🥹

Thinking a lot today about my immigrant and refugee neighbors who have experienced unspeakable horrors before getting here and are now having horrors visited upon them. God forgive us

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.

Trump’s $300 million ballroom may serve a purpose after all. It should be finished about the time the world is looking for a building to hold the Trump Regime War Crime Trials. Trying Trump for his many crimes in the building he hoped would be his enduring legacy would be ultimate irony. #ProudBlue

This is profoundly wrong by Governor Whitmer. Symbols matter. Our White House matters. People live and die for symbols.

He desperately wants an ICE officer to shoot someone so we can enter the Cool Zone like he’s dreamed since childhood

I actually do want the next president to appoint someone like Stephen Miller, except I want it to be Bill Kristol, and I want his monomaniacal obsession to be destroying Trump’s legacy and prosecuting everyone in the administration.

The White House thing is such a disaster for them. The most potent political emotions are mass anger, visceral disgust, sense of lost, and nostalgia, preferably supported by images, and somehow they’ve triggered all of it at once. And now it’s gone, can’t be stopped, and they have to build a palace.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

WOW: "The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that it accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help fund military pay." Trump is doing his best to make the US military his own private militia. This is very dangerous. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days

GOP: burning a flag disrespects the people who fought and died for that symbol Also GOP: hahaha the White House is ours and we'll bulldoze it if we like, just be glad we left you the other half for now

Watch this.

This goes out to everyone who has fought and is fighting for your neighbors' freedom, whether you made it out to No Kings or not.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

I'm urging that Democrats, who have resources, people, and theoretically self-interest, actually try to think of creative and proactive ways to block some of Trump's worst and most dangerous corruption. I don't know how to do that other than point out how completely passive and inert they've been

So is the plan here just to make snarky comments about Matt Stoller, or do any of the Democrats who control half the country’s elected offices or businesses that control the other 90% of the economy have any plan to fight back against Trump literally seizing control of the free market for himself

The entire legislative class of America, both parties, have largely abdicated and abandoned the Constitution

First of all, this is bullshit. He may not have known its significance at the time, but according to two sources--including HIS OWN POLITICAL DIRECTOR--he knew damned well what it meant YEARS ago. He has yet to contradict these claims. jewishinsider.com/2025/10/grah...

The ballroom thing is a catastrophe for them and a travesty for America. Trump should meet his political end over it. 300 million in bribes to destroy OUR heritage, OUR national property, and build a hideous, un-American monument to himself. At a time where the government is imploding.

“The Flight 93 Election”

ok who did this? ☹️

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

I left the following message for my representatives in congress, @peters.senate.gov, @slotkin.senate.gov, and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet.

Only one of these images of the White House is real...

Please donate to your local food bank You can also donate to this food bank where there are so many laid off government workers Go to capitalareafoodbank.org Thank you

I made a joke about the metaphors being heavy-handed yesterday, but this somehow encapsulates everything. The president is wrecking a structure he does not understand and does not appreciate and does not value to build something ugly and self-serving in its place.

Trans people are now functionally banned from the University of Virginia, the seventh university to do so.

Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?

ONE MORE TIME: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name. bsky.app/profile/char...

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

Trump's Demolishing Entire East Wing The entire East Wing will be destroyed to make way for Trump’s ballroom. "It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it.” He Lied. The destruction of the Peoples House clearly demonstrates his contempt.

Trump isn’t going to stop with the East Wing. The West Wing is a goner, and probably lots of other stuff. He will physically destroy our national symbols and heritage.

Viva Senator Jeff Merkley!!!!!! Democratic senator’s floor speech condemning Trump enters 19th hour | share.google/KG5Tuchd9dGK...

If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.

It's not just the facade: Team Trump has wrecked much of the White House's East Wing www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

Where exactly are the Democrats on this? There is going to be no better symbolism of Trump's utter vandalism and corruption of American government and democracy.

*Trump destroys the legal and constitutional heritage of the US* Dems: "We can't make noise about this, it's not concrete enough for voters" *Trump destroys the literal, physical White House* Dems: "We can't make noise about this, not when the legal and constitutional heritage is at stake"

this fucking son of a bitch

Trump always lies about everything. When he announced this absurd ballroom project months ago, he had his people say "nothing will be torn down" and the "East Wing will be temporarily relocated." And here's what the East Wing looks like today: a gutted husk.

He has said before he wants to connect the old EOB directly to the White House. It’s gonna be a goddamn Imperial Palace by the time he’s through with it.

He will almost certainly demolish the West Wing before this is done, and I wouldn't be surprised if he demolished most of the White House. He doesn't care and no one is stopping him. He's an unrestrained tyrant and wants to build monuments to himself.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

It's fine to like brunch. It's fine to be a Democrat. It's admirable to have a master's degree. It's admirable to be a brunch-loving Democrat with a master's degree.